Sentences with phrase «race to the top competitive»

He listed the following as Regents» achievements: winning $ 700 million through the federal Race To The Top competitive grant program, raising standards, achieving a significant new investment in pre-kindergarten and increasing graduation rates.

Schools used their share of $ 4.3 billion in federal Race to the Top competitive - grant money to make significant progress in areas including state data systems and instructional resources for teachers.

Critics note, however, that the federal government has encouraged states to adopt the Common Core through the Race to the Top competitive grant program and a streamlined path to waivers from the provisions of No Child Left Behind.

In particular, the Obama administration, through its Race to the Top competitive grants and its waivers of No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) requirements, is putting pressure on states to incorporate student test scores as a significant component of any new teacher evaluation system.

The Education Department also on Thursday released a report on the Obama administration's $ 4 billion Race to the Top competitive grant program, describing how it ushered in sweeping policy changes in many states, including some that proved controversial, such as new teacher evaluations tied to student test scores.

However, he opposes current legislation aimed at improving the state's eligibility for up to $ 700 million in the federal Race to the Top competitive grants.

In the Obama administration's 2009 Race to the Top competitive grant program, for example, the federal government favored states that permitted the use of student test scores in teacher evaluations.

As a staffer in the administration of former Tennessee governor Phil Bredesen, Pinkston was instrumental in devising the state's successful proposal to receive money from the Obama administration's Race to the Top competitive grant program.

Not exact matches

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If all the players mentioned above do move to the top four or five clubs in the Premier League, then there will be no question that the race for the title in the English top flight will be the most competitive in the world.

This will hopefully lead to a more competitive title race, meaning more teams involved as the points tally between the top two or three is always close.

Rep. Timothy H. Bishop's re-election has once again surged to the top of the cycle's list of most competitive House races, and Republicans are more optimistic than ever they can defeat the battle - tested New York Democrat.

Missouri is playing host to one of the year's most competitive Senate races, and Attorney General Josh Hawley is supposed to be among the top Republican recruits.

At this still - early point in the»08 cycle, it's hard to overlook the dearth of top - tier Republican candidates in potentially competitive Senate races.

«By passing legislation to raise the charter cap, reform charter schools, improve teacher evaluation, and invest in tracking educational outcomes, the Senate Democratic Majority helped give New York the competitive advantage it needed to become a finalist in the Race to the Top,» Sampson crowed.

David Davis [Minister for Leaving the EU] said the UK wanted to lead a «global race to the top» in rights and standards not, as some feared, a «competitive race to the bottom».

In 2009, through the «Race to the Top» program, the federal government offered $ 4.35 billion in competitive grants to states that adopted Common Core standards and developed plans to improve state test scores and teacher evaluation results.

Ball has also co-sponsored a bill to ditch the Common Core altogether, along with the federal competitive grant program Race To The Top, which is President Obama's signature education initiativto ditch the Common Core altogether, along with the federal competitive grant program Race To The Top, which is President Obama's signature education initiativTo The Top, which is President Obama's signature education initiative.

Alcivar noted the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has declined to elevate Derrick to their top - tier support program designed to aid candidates in the country's most competitive races.

So yes, there are inevitably going to be competitive races that don't make one person or another's top 10 list of the MOST competitive ones.

The Common Core standards were developed by a group of state education leaders but promoted by the federal government, particularly through Race To The Top, a nationwide competitive grant program that required the adoption of standards that boost college - and career - readiness.

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Each month seems to find the top three in most categories getting closer to each other and making this race super competitive.

He also, unexpectedly, made the case for the continuation of the Race to the Top approach of federal incentives for state - level reforms (presumably via competitive grant programs).

The idea of New York being competitive in a national race to the top in education reform was a no - brainer to people around the state.

Obama programs such as «Race to the Top,» a $ 4 billion competitive grant program that rewards states that develop reforms, has some support from states but is «not easy to explain,» said Jal Mehta, an assistant professor of education.

It seems almost peevish to criticize U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's game - changing Race to the Top plan that dangles $ 4 billion in new competitive - grant funding before states willing to reform their schools.

Duncan announced Race to the Top (RttT), a competitive grants program that had been authorized and funded by the education stimulus package.

At the same time, the Race to the Top program offered competitive grants that awarded points to states based on their implementation of policies like performance - based evaluations.

The Race to the Top program, announced in 2009, allotted $ 4.35 billion for competitive state grants and encouraged states and districts to revamp their teacher evaluations.

If, for example, it releases funds as formula grants, which are distributed to all states on the same basis, it can ensure universal adoption of programs like Title I. Competitive grants like Race to the Top arguably make policy implementation more efficient: the executive branch can regulate, clarify, and be selective about its enforcement of the law.

After a protracted debate, delegates to the National Education Association have voted to take a position of «no confidence» in the U.S. Department of Education's Race to the Top guidelines and in the use of competitive grants as a basis for the reauthorization of ESEA.

If the extension makes it into the final spending bills for fiscal year 2011, advocates say, that could mean more states will take the reform - minded steps emphasized in the Race to the Top program, such as revamping their teacher - evaluation systems and lifting caps on charter schools, in order to get a slice of the competitive grants.

With the Department of Education proposing a new $ 5 billion Race to the Top — style competitive grant program aimed at teacher policy, however, it's worth taking a closer look at Race to the Top's results.

President Barack Obama is forcefully defending his signature education initiative, the $ 4.35 billion Race to the Top program, which has come under fire from civil rights groups that worry the competitive nature of the program creates a system of winners and losers that could hinder schools serving poor and minority students.

Third, the Education Department could mount a competitive - grant program akin to Race to the Top for states and / or districts that want to engage in more school choice.

Earlier in 2009, also through Race to the Top, the administration had offered $ 4.35 billion in funding through a competitive grant program designed to encourage states to enact the feds» preferred school - reform policies — including the adoption of better standards and assessments.

The use of adaptive learning is closely tied to the Race to the Top early learning reform initiative, alignment with Common Core State Standards, and to teach 21st century skills to increase U.S. student competitive advantage.

The expanded federal role has been most evident in a thoroughly revamped National Assessment of Educational Progress (1988); the Clinton administration's Goals 2000 Act (1994); the Bush administration's No Child Left Behind Act (2001); and, most recently, the «Race to the Top» component of the 2009 economic stimulus act, which will award competitive grants to states that, in the judgment of the Obama administration, have what it takes to turn around failing schools and boost student achievement.

His program was a federal grant, called «Race to the Top,» which was doled out on a competitive basis.

In the study, to be published in the Spring 2011 issue of Education Next and available at www.educationnext.org, authors Stuart Buck and Jay P. Greene examined the key characteristics of performance pay plans currently in place in school districts, in light of increased attention given to merit pay in national debate and in the Obama Administration's Race to the Top (RttT) competitive grant program.

Everything else will be left on the cutting room floor — specific requirements about interventions in failing schools; mandates around teacher evaluations or «highly qualified teachers»; competitive grant programs a la Race to the Top.

And the present decade opened with the Race to the Top, the brainchild of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, based on the bold hypothesis that sizable grants of federal dollars, disbursed via a competitive process, can induce states to jump through reform policy hoops that they likely would not otherwise have attempted.

Meanwhile, the findings conclude that the U.S. Department of Education rewarded two states that have historically implemented among the lowest standards in the country — Tennessee and Delaware — with highly competitive Race to the Top (RttT) funds.

«We promise there will be plenty of money left in phase two,» Joanne Weiss, the department's Race to the Top director, told states gathered in the Baltimore area for a department - sponsored technical seminar on the competitive - grant program.

But not to worry: Washington Education Association sounds happy that Race to the Top and its «underlying competitive nature» is going away.

He also pressed for innovation by implementing competitive grant programs, such as Race to the Top and Inventing in Innovation (i.e., «i3»).

As with the No Child reauthorization plan put together by Alexander, Kline's proposal would restrict the Obama Administration and its successors from requiring states to implement high - quality curricula standards or specific accountability systems as condition of receiving Title 1 dollars or funds from competitive grant programs such as Race to the Top.

But Duncan can also leverage his competitive grant programs — including Race to the Top — for this purpose by requiring additional data collection to be a condition of gaining those funds.

There would be an additional $ 1.35 billion for Race to the Top, $ 500 million for a similar contest called Investing in Innovation and hundreds of millions of dollars for competitive grants to improve teaching and school leadership.